Service marketplace for small businesses on the blockchain

Opporty is a service marketplace with cutting-edge blockchain technology on board. Opporty enables new models of commercial and social engagement on secure, resilient, and impenetrable Ethereum blockchain. It streamlines small business activities through smart contracts and decentralized Escrow procedure.

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The Next Web

Business is not just a single entity but a combination of things. Every business becomes great because their leaders realize the importance of creation of an efficient network of humans that will support it no matter what. Cisco, known as "The Human Network", demonstrates the point pretty well.

Opporty

Recently, we have been talking a lot about Opporty and its updates. Today we want to delve into concrete use cases of Opporty and Opporty services. Our main goal is to help you understand what the Opporty team strives for and what we are and will be doing to assist businesses to grow and improve their standing on the market.

Entrepreneur

Today, it is much easier to start a business than ever before. The opportunities seem limitless, so does the competition. Every product seems to have an almost exact copy out there in the market. Having said that, how can your start-up stand out in such a crowded marketplace?

HuffPost

Uber, a $68bn behemoth, has been generating positive press coverage since 2013, and it is no wonder why. The company has propelled a revolution on the market not only changing the way we treat traditional taxicab companies but also disrupting the whole industry.

A ledger for blockchain culture

mempool delivers a selection of thought-provoking reads, analysis and opinion to help you be smart, informed, and ahead of the curve on blockchain and crypto-currencies. You will find a concise roundup of the world’s most interesting reads on blockchain.

Online education powered by the blockchain

AcademyCoin is a fully functional cryptocurrency operating on it’s own private blockchain. Enabling educators to accept international payments is only the first of many on-chain features being released. The biggest upcoming feature was all over Reddit (/r/ethereum /r/cryptocurrency) this past weekend is called "Proof of Creation."

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Medium

Today we're excited to announce the launch of AcademyCoin . We've built the world's first token operating on a decentralized blockchain enabling educators to accept payments and monthly membership payments from their students and fans. Using our blockchain ACAD now allows educators to generate sustainable monthly income that is traditionally heavily reliant …See more

Blockchain verification platform for Diplomas & Certificates

Smart Diploma is a blockchain anti-falsification solution for academic diplomas and certificates. It's a new safety standard for the knowledge based economy.

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Medium

According to Think: Education group around 30% of professional qualification documents worldwide are forged. Verification of such documents is complicated and expensive. The reputation of educational institutions or individual teachers is at risk as well as the people who are dealing with unqualified specialists.

Your ID, degree or house. 0xcert-ified on the blockchain

0xcert is an open-source protocol that translates the existence, authenticity, authorship and ownership of unique digital or real-world assets into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – unique certificates available from the blockchain. It provides a foundation for trustless, certified, non-fungible tokens.

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BitcoinExchangeGuide

0xcert is an open source and permission less protocol available for the non-fungible tokens referred to as Xcerts on blockchain. The open protocol permits for the shortening of development time, risk reduction and lower costs when building blockchain solutions. The storage of the tokens is in cryptographic wallets under the ownership of the users.

NewsBTC

0xcert , a European based tech start-up, is starting a Public Pre-sale event on June 26, The first open protocol powered by non-fungible tokens is designed to expand the potential of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrencies 5 pm CEST.

Forbes

Blockchain has gained increasing popularity over the past year. Having begun as the technology behind cryptocurrency exchanges, it has now shown promise in almost every other sector of the economy as it's a secure, reliable and tamper-proof way of recording transactions and exchanging data. So, what promise does this technology hold for social media?

Digitaljournal

Convert your ID, university degree, artwork or even a house into a non-fungible token on the blockchain - safely stored in your wallet.Nowadays, blockchain is mostly known for currencies, but the future of blockchain is going to look very different.

AirSwap is a peer-to-peer trading network built on Ethereum.

AirSwap is a decentralized, peer-to-peer token trading network built on the Ethereum blockchain. Buying and selling tokens on AirSwap is secure, simple, and without fees. Our mission is to empower people through global, frictionless trade.

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Bloomberg.com

AirSwap is a decentralized market that leverages Ethereum Users connect via bulletin boards with their identities masked A new decentralized cryptocurrency market co-founded by a veteran of automated trading firm Virtu Financial Inc. opened on Thursday, handling more than $1 million of transactions.

AirSwap Blog

AirSwap is a global token marketplace powered by search, now in private beta on the Rinkeby test network. This release is in its minimum form, letting you search, select, and trade Ethereum tokens. Exchange was decentralized with the advent of blockchain as peer-to-peer electronic cash.

Cryptocurrency and smart contract event notifications

TxHash, Blockchain as a Service, is the easiest way to get notified about blockchain payments, transactions and smart contract events on your apps. Monitor and keep track of any address. Notify your services and APIs with a few clicks using webhooks, emails or IFTTT. Currently supporting Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Smart Contracts.

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Medium

Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies have already started to disrupt many aspects of our financial system.However, the tools available to entrepreneurs and developers looking to build on the Blockchain are complex, taking time and resources to learn. There needs to be a simple solution to connect our current web 2.0 applications and services …See more

City building simulation game on the blockchain

Fair City is a city building simulation game on the blockchain. On the Fair City Simulation, you purchase digital land, build constructions and have them as your digital asset on the blockchain.

The players can sell obtained assets at the end of the game in exchanges for token, and can win up to 6 ETH for one piece of land.

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CoinSpeaker

Fair.City is a real treasury found in the world of simulation games that exercises all blockchain perks to provide gamers with fair and transparent gaming environment. Sheer experience of veteran gamers from all over the world approves that business simulation games have always been if not the most but indeed highly popular kinds in the game industry.

The Crypto Collectors

For the longest time, simulation games have been a popular genre in the gaming community. Not to give away my age here, but Theme Hospital, Theme Park and SimFarm laid the foundations for me as a gamer. With each new upcoming game or release, I was f...

Blockchain | Crypto Games Community

A Gamers community based on Blockchain technology & cryptocurrency Not bound to a specific game or genre. We are a community run by gamers, for gamers. We stand for Friends, Fun and Fairplay!

The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum DApp

The Thousand Ether Homepage is a re-imagining of what the Million Dollar Homepage would look like today, using the latest Ethereum technologies. Perhaps more interestingly, it's a glimpse into the future of web technology with native integration of identity and payments right inside the browser.

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Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp thousandetherhomepage.com )

Boilerplate code to build blockchain powered social apps

Mint is a Tendermint based blockchain protocol that lets anyone build social apps easily. Mint was created out of a need for efficient data storage on blockchain. It provides you with a simple boilerplate code for building social communities and gets out of your way quickly.

At Hashnode we have been experimenting a lot with blockchain and its use-cases. We have been running a developers' community ourselves, and the idea behind "decentralized communities" fascinates me a lot. The fact that everyone owns the data and controls the platform can give rise to new types of social apps and disrupt the traditional way of building online…See more

A powerful API and web UI for building blockchain-based apps

Hedge is a complete software platform for running a blockchain-powered business. We reduce the complexity of managing keys and network interaction so you can focus on building more, faster.

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Medium

Today, we are announcing a new mission for our product and team at Hedge: build more, faster. We want to help developers everywhere build the next generation of blockchain-powered applications. The Hedge team knows first-hand the difficulty and costs of building the infrastructure required to interact with decentralized networks.

Anonymous P2P messenger on blockchain technology

The purpose of the CallBox project is to build truly secure and anonymous communication service. Blockchain technology allowed us to build decentralized messenger: miners install CallBox nodes and generate revenue by establishing connections between users. Miners work like commutators.

Tell your product's story on the blockchain

Easy to use, powerful, blockchain music platform

Ours is a blockchain music platform empowering independent musicians to realise more value from the music they create and rewards their fans in cool ways through the issue of cryptocurrencies

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Cioreview

Offers a music platform based on blockchain, aiming to reward artists and musicians fairly through the application of automated music contracts

Ideas Hoist

Mo Jalloh has a well-rounded background, with experience in business and finance having qualified as a chartered management accountant. He has worked for several global investment banks and city Law firms in London, arriving in Australia in 2005. He has a passion for technology and for developing solutions in technology that can improve people's lives, espec…See more

Anthill Online

Zimrii, a new digital music platform, built on the emerging potential of blockchain technology, is a revolutionary software product designed to solve current music industry problems whereby artists and musicians who create the music, are unfairly rewarded for their efforts.

ComputerWeekly.com

Digital currency bitcoin may have appeared to be a way to disrupt financial services. But the technology behind it - blockchain, a type of distributed digital ledger that uses encryption to make entries permanent and tamper-proof - is now being adopted across the financial sector.

Bitsonline

There's been a concerted effort as of late to connect the music industry and the blockchain, the latest being Zimrii Music. This match aims to end unfair compensation to intermediaries, allowing artists to receive more of the money they rightfully deserve.

Anthill Online

The countdown to the Cools has begun. From the hundreds of applications we received this year, this impressive posse has been selected as our Top 100 Coolest Companies in Australia. What next?